His earliest works of art were created in service to the United States, as part of a special camouflage unit in France during World War II. Kelly and his fellow artist-soldiers were tasked with ...

Ellsworth Kelly, one of the last of the American masters of abstract art, has died. He was 92. The painter/sculptor died Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y., according to Matthew Marks of the ...

In 1943, Kelly was drafted for US military service. Along with fellow artists and designers, he served in The Ghost Army, a top-secret unit formed to dupe the Axis forces with tools of deception ...

Artist Ellsworth Kelly, ... He was in a U.S. Army uniform during World War II, ... After the war, Kelly lived in Paris. Art historian Sarah Rich says he'd walk around snapping photographs.

Ellsworth Kelly's works -- which since the 1960s have left their stamp on the American abstract, minimalist and pop art movements -- deliberately avoid cluttering the viewer's mind with specific ...

Kelly served in the Army in Europe during World War II. After the war, he returned to Europe to live in Paris in the late ’40s and immersed himself in the city’s modern art scene.

After being discharged from the army at the end of World War II, Kelly enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1945, where he studied painting.

American artist Ellsworth Kelly would have turned 100 this month (May 2023). His recipe of hard-edge abstraction, colour field painting and minimalism saw him become one the most definitive painters ...

For fans of Ellsworth Kelly, today is a day to celebrate. In honor of what would have been Kelly’s 96th birthday, the United States Postal Service has released a set of 20 new postage stamps ...